antiphony

== English == === Noun === antiphony (countable and uncountable, plural antiphonies) (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner. Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition. 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 76: "Besides that Cardan pleases himself with that Antiphonie in Nature, that as the Ostrich being a Bird, yet never shes in the Aire, so this Bird of Paradise should alwayes be in the Aire, and never rest upon the Earth." (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”). ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Typhonian